Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 319 -- Summoning of additional accused - S.319 Cr.P.C. deals with procedure of summoning additional accused to face trial who has been left out by police and not charge-sheeted along with other accused persons...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 319 -- Summoning of additional accused - S.319(1) Cr.P.C. leaves it to judicial discretion of Court, where trial is proceeding to summon a person as an accused (who has been left by police), if evidence has appeared before Court that such a person has committed an offence for which he should be tried together with other accused...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 319 -- Summoning of additional accused - There is more than a prima facie case to proceed against petitioners u/ss 498-A, 304-B IPC - Merits and defence of accused cannot be appreciated at this initial stage of taking cognizance - Defence so put by accused with regard to their false implication would be taken into account by Trial..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 319 -- Summoning of additional accused - Opinion of investigating agency does not bind Court and Court may independently exercise powers u/s 319 Cr.P.C., yet investigative conclusion remains a relevant circumstance in assessing whether evidence recorded during trial truly crosses higher evidentiary threshold...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 319, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Summoning of additional accused - Offence u/s 498-A IPC - Allegations of cruelty and harassment in connection with alleged monetary demand attributed with clarity and consistency to husband and father-in-law - However, no specific overt act, date, instance, conversation or independent..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 319 -- Summoning of additional accused - When Court on the basis of evidence on record found no cause to invoke suo motu power u/s 319 Cr.P.C, same cannot be lightly invoked on the mere accusation made by complainant...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 319 -- Summoning of additional accused - Allegation that jeep in which five persons sitting dashed against bicycle driven by complainant and his son, resulting in injuries both to complainant and his son - However, deposition of complainant and PWs 1 and 2 was only to extent of sole accused arrayed in charge sheet having driven the..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 319 -- Summoning of additional accused - At the time of summoning u/s 319 Cr.P.C. Court has to see that there is a strong and cogent evidence against such person and not merely probability of his complicity...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 319, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 306 -- Summoning of additional accused - Offence u/ss 498-A, 306 IPC - General, vague and omnibus allegations were made against opposite parties No.2 to 4 without referring to any date, time and place as well as nature of offence - There is not even a prima facie case against opposite..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 319 -- Summoning of additional accused - S.319 Cr.P.C. empowers Court to arraign any person as an additional accused in an ongoing trial, who is not already an accused before it - If evidence suggests that such person has committed the offence which is subject matter of that trial, and should be tried with accused persons already..........
